... [Y]esterday, on a list I subscribe to, Michael Carroll raised an interesting question for the publishers on the list that brought together Boyle’s book’s CC license, the Google/Publisher/Author settlement agreement and OA generally. ...
[Carroll:] I’d be interested in … reactions to the question of whether academic authors and publishers might not do better tha[n] the Google settlement route by taking the open access route for scholarly monographs.
Case in point. James Boyle’s new book has just been released under a Creative Commons license by Yale University Press. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 12/07/2008 01:12:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
